A three-part series on China’s role in the War on Terror, at China E-Lobby. Intro:
The Unexamined Effect of the Hainan Island Outrage – This is the first of three posts that were inspired by Sunday’s anniversary of the 9/11/01 attacks. Tomorrow’s post will focus on occupied East Turkestan, which the Communists have used as their smokescreen to cover up their support of anti-American terrorists. The final post, on Sunday, will describe in detail those ties between Communist China and America’s enemies in the War on Terror.
Start here.
As a companion piece, Mark Helprin for the Opinion Journal. He has been sounding the alarm bells on China since the Clinton years, and has scathing words for both left and right.
September 11 was not so much a discrete event as part of a continuum. It was the result of broad strategic failures that, preceding it by decades, continue to this day and are likely to continue on. It is as if the country has lost, as exemplified by the Left now out of power, a great deal of the will to self-preservation, and, as exemplified by the Right now in charge, not a little of its capacity for self-defense. Our politics and policies have somehow been parceled out to opportunists like Michael Moore–purveyor of conspiracy theories and hatreds, whose presentation, unclean in every respect, is honored nonetheless by the controlling rump of Democrats–and to Bushmen like “Kip” Hawley of Homeland Security, father of the proposal to allow carry-on ice-picks, bows and arrows, and knives with blades up to five-inches long.
For more than 20 years prior to September 11, Islamic terrorists imprisoned and murdered our diplomats and military personnel, destroyed our civil aviation, machine-gunned our civilians, razed our embassies, attacked an American warship and, in 1993, the U.S. itself. For varying reasons, none legitimate, we hesitated to mount an offensive against the terrorists’ infrastructure, hunt them down, eliminate a single rogue regime that supported them, or properly disconcert our fatted allies whose robes they infested. This was comparable in its way to Munich. Only in 2001, when it became obvious to any rational being that we must, did we retaliate, but even then in the face of domestic pressure to judicialize the response, which was exactly what we had done all along.
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Having made many wrong choices, we find ourselves at yet another strategic crossroads, where invisibly to the general public we are about to choose wrongly again. We are reshaping the military into a gendarmerie, configured for small wars, counterinsurgency, peacekeeping and nation-building, all at the expense of the type of force that could deter or defeat a rising China. Although we need a gendarmerie, we cannot do without heavy formations and the many additional ships required for a navy–now less than half the size of the Reagan fleet and shrinking–to exploit our natural advantage in the Pacific.
The U.S. will chase every terrorist mouse (which is good, unless it means also neglecting the core competencies of the armed forces), while lessening and dispersing its power, and moving from previous centers of gravity (Europe, the Western Pacific) to Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East. This will create a long and open alley through which China will run. Among other things, by placing markers in every trouble spot, we will probably be tied down and distracted, taxingly and often, to our enemies’ delight.
I have grave doubts about China and it’s military might – that being said I did read once that China could mount a war against the US and their population base can sustain unimaginable losses for in infinite amount of years just due to the number of young people coming of age every year who could be drafted into the military.
My suspicion with China is that they are going get a finacial stronghold in every available arena and then hold American interest hostage. They are buying there way into virtually every industry and specifically into the Canadian Oilsand developments in a huge way. Financial might will get them where they want to be much easier, much faster, and seemingly more disceetly than any military action. Watch the financial pages.
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People’s Daily Online
Hu arrives in Toronto amid security and protests
CTV.ca – 51 minutes ago
Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Toronto Saturday amid tight security and scores of protesters. Hu was greeted by federal Immigration Minister Joe Volpe at Pearson International Airport before meeting with Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty. …
Canada and China sign strategic partnership, discuss human rights CBC News
China, Canada agree on building strategic partnership>>>>>>>
Sheila’s views are well taken and I would add that the author is off track suggesting reshaping the military to heavy formations and numbers of ships.
The contest of size and numbers is already lost. China is aware they have won there.
No, the contest is now the advanced weapon or the sectret weapon.
That’s why all this chummy joint-venture stuff makes me so uneasy. What better way to get cutting edge tech for free than by having a joint venture plant built in China?
It’s nice to be chummy and I hope it stays that way. The Chinese people, ( I have known many), are salt of the earth. It’s the overly ambitious, no holds barred leadership that gives me pause. 73’s TG
If you want to hurt the Chinese economy, attack Walmart!
Remember the Asian “tigers”, the rip-roaring economies? The Chinese have built the same thing. This oil price hike could be tough for them. If they can’t keep the improvements coming in their civilian economy, the Tiannimen Square massacre could be repeated on a far larger scale.
Hey, isn’t this the same Chinese that Canada is running a dog and pony show for right now? The same ones that Stephen Harper says we should do business with and turn our backs on the Americans? The same Chinese that reportedly have 1,000 spies operating in Canada? WAKE UP CANADA!
I never heard of the acuial attack until a little later when someone told me about it and i do remember it rained a little that terible day or was that tears from heaven?
u have to respect chinese.mac